Conference Presentations:

  • Reasoning about Causal Interventions in Rats is not due to Retrospective Revaluation. (Paper presented at The Origins of Causal Cognition International Expert Meeting, Lignely, Belgium, 2007.) Power Point

  • ARENA: Automated Remote Environmental Navigation Apparatus. (Paper presented at the International Conference on Comparative Cognition, 2006, Melbourne, FL). Power Point. (Video of ARENA: Rat and Pigeon. Video Close up of pigeon pecking ARENA sensor)

  • CS Preexposure Illuminates the Different Associative Structures of Forward and Backward Pavlovian Conditioning. (Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, 2003, Vancouver, BC). Power Point

  • Integration of spatial maps acquired through sensory preconditioning in pigeons. (Paper presented at the XIV Congress of the Spanish Society of Comparative Psychology, 2002, Seville, Spain). Power Point

  • A history of brief time: Perception, attention, and responding in the pigeon. (Paper presented at the Attraction, Distraction, and Action: An interdisciplinary conference and workshop on attentional capture, Villanova University, PA, 2000). Power Point

  • Videos:

  • Rat performing in 12-arm radial maze wmv

  • Pigeon performing in a landmark-based visual-search task on a touchscreen wmv

  • Rat pressing a lever to receive sucrose solution

  •                 close up (mpeg 30megs) (avi 112megs), whole box (mpeg 30megs) (avi 112 megs)

  • Two rats lever pressing for sucrose solution

  •                 close up (mpeg 29megs) (avi 112megs)   

    Other Work:

  • The adaptive significance of beliefs about the afterlife (Paper from a course on human behavior and evolution taught by David Sloan Wilson). PDF

  • The monkey and the man. html

  • Lab tools: